As you are aware, the CLAT 2023 Exam is going to commence around six months from now, so you still have six months left in your hand to excel in your preparations. Although the exams for the 2023 session will be held in 2022 itself, you will have very less time actually to prepare for it.

CLAT Exam Pattern

Now coming back to the preparation strategy, the first important thing is to know the CLAT 2023 exam pattern to be familiar with what the topics carry less or more weight.

• Maximum Marks: 150
• Duration Of Exam: 2 Hours
• Question Type: Multiple Type Questions (MCQs) for one mark each
• Negative Marking: 0.25 marks for each wrong answer

Subject Areas With Weightage	Approximate Number Of Questions
English Language	28-32 Questions, or roughly 20% of the paper
Current Affairs Including GK	35-39 Questions, or roughly 25% of the paper
Legal Reasoning	35-39 Questions, or roughly 25% of the paper
Logical Reasoning	28-32 Questions, or roughly 20% of the paper
Quantitative Techniques	13-17 Questions, or roughly 10% of the paper

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How To Start Preparing for CLAT

Whether you crack the exam or not, that's not the important question; it is how much did you prepare for the exam. If you can answer it with confidence, no matter if you do not crack CLAT in First Attempt, you can attempt it twice. So the important thing is how you prepare for the exam.

While having conversations with many toppers from Toprankers who held All India Ranks from 1-100, we shortlisted some of the impactful strategies they performed daily. Here we are listing those important strategies so that they would help you achieve your dream target of cracking CLAT in just six months.

• Religiously Reading- A lot of reading is a must for acquiring an overall knowledge of almost everything. Without a habit of daily reading, you are not going anywhere. Whether you look at the AIR 1 interview, Air 2 interview, or any other ranked student's interview, the one thing you will find common in them is that they had a habit of reading a lot. Make sure to read Novels, Newspapers like The Hindu & Indian Express, Articles, Weekly magazines, Editorials, Blogs, and Websites. This will help you improve your comprehension skills, critical reasoning, and also your current affairs knowledge.
• Build On Legal Section- Improving your core section is very important; if you start preparing for it from the beginning, the better it will be. Even if you are preparing for CLAT 2024, start your preparations now; start reading as many Legal articles and news as possible. There are many websites and free videos available to you to keep your selves updated with the latest news.
• Build Your Critical Reasoning Concepts- The basic concepts like paradox reasoning and statement-based reasoning should be made strong. There are many books, Legaledge RSMs, and previous year papers to refer to for your preparations. You can check out CLAT Critical Reasoning Questions to better understand the questions asked in the exam.
• Start With Basics of Quantitative Section- Students from non-maths backgrounds find it difficult to build their Quantitative section. So to overcome this problem, you should start now and work on essential topics like ratio, percentage, age, number sections, etc., from 10th standard basic maths. Start practicing these topics a lot, and you will eventually grow stronger.
• Start Reading Editorials- Do not read the whole newspaper, as it will consume a lot of time gathering much crap knowledge you do not want for the exam. Instead, focus more on the editorial section; here, you will be able to understand the views of different persons from different backgrounds. Knowing things from a different perspective is essential as you might need those skills to solve questions viewing them from a different perspective.
• Attempt Mocks and Understand the MCQ Pattern- As said by toppers attempting mocks can help you understand the MCQ pattern. It would help if you broke the subjective type question chain to crack competitive exams like CLAT. You can attempt a few free mock tests on our site and buy mock test packages to prepare hundreds of mock tests based on the latest syllabus and exam pattern.

5 Tips For Every CLAT 2023 Aspirant

Here we are mentioning five important tips that every CLAT aspirant should do and follow every day.

• Focus on PYP Legal Section
• Focus on Quantitative Section
• Practice CR GMAT Based Regularly
• Don't Worry About Mock Scores
• Daily GK from Legal Edge Material, GK Today, etc.

Dont's for Every CLAT Aspirant

• Don't worry about mock scores; they are just to prepare you and improve gradually.
• Don't skip mock tests; try to attempt every mock available to you.
• Don't skip micro topics; even a micro topic can impact your scores a lot.
• Do not invest more time in GK.

Sectional Strategy For CLAT

For cracking CLAT, you need to work on some important strategies in order to build a strong knowledge for the respective section. Here we have mentioned some of the best strategies you can follow to improve each section strategically.

Sections	What to Do strategy
For Legal	CLAT+AILET previous year papers, follow the passage, work on elimination method, Current Legal Knowledge
For GK	Newspapers are a must and focus from January to December
For Quantitative	Basic topics, DI-based practice, PYP of CLAT
For English	RC + Vocab + Grammer
For CR	PYP, GMAT-based Questions

Lastly, knowing that you have very less time left for your preparations, you need to start immediately. Try your best to follow these tips to prepare yourselves fully in six months. This is always our priority that you should solve as many mocks as you can get your hands on so that you get to prepare for the real exam situation easily.

So lets begin now and excel the exams 6 months later. We wish you all the best for your preparations and also for your CLAT 2023 exams.